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Edmund Xie

Owner of the firm, Trademark Agent, Patent Agent, Lawyer

Edmund's Qualifications

* Member, Law Society of British Columbia

* Registered Patent Agent 

* Registered Trademark Agent 

* University of Victoria, LL.B. (law degree), 2009

Edmund Xie is the founder and managing attorney of the firm, and has worked in the field of Canadian trademark and patent law for over 16 years. Edmund has a law degree from the University of Victoria in Canada (2009) and a Ph.D. in microbiology from Ohio State University in the United States.  Edmund is a licensed trademark agent and patent agent in Canada and is also a member of the Law Society of of British Columbia. 

Edmund studied law at the University of Victoria from 2006 to 2009.  In his first year of law school, Edmund received several merit-based scholarships, including the McCarthy Tetrault LLP Prize in Contract Law and the G. Allan Higenbottam Prize in Law, Legislation and Policy.  During the first summer of law school, Edmund did research with law professor Maneesha Deckha at UVic and co-authored a paper which was later published in the Stanford Animal Law Review.  During the second summer of law school, Edmund worked as a summer articling student at the Vancouver office of a national intellectual property law firm where he worked with several experienced patent and trademark attorneys, including Mike Manson (now a Federal Court justice), Tim Lo, Brian Kingwell, and Andris Macins.  In his third year of law school, Edmund wrote a research paper on intellectual property law under the supervision of UVic law professor Bob Howell, and also did a four-months clinical term at the Law Centre in downtown Victoria under the supervision of professor Glenn Gallins. 

After graduating from law school in 2009, Edmund took PLTC (Professional Legal Training Course, the course mandated by the Law Society of BC for bar admission), articled and then worked as an associate at a Vancouver-based independent intellectual property boutique law firm from 2010 to 2014. Edmund is very grateful that he had the opportunity to work with and learn from the many experienced and talented senior lawyers during those formative years.

Edmund founded Alphabetica Law on January 1, 2015.  Now, Alphabetica Law has been in business for more than 10 years. Our clients include many local businesses who have used our services to protect and register their trademarks and brands.  Some of our client success stories include Vancouver-based food delivery platform (Fantuan), a popular Canadian hot pot restaurant chain (Big Way Hot Pot), a Michelin one star restaurant in Vancouver (iDen Beijing Duck House), and the Enoki mushroom brand (Jongilpoom).  

At Alphabetica Law, our clients also include foreign companies and foreign law firms who retain our services to register trademarks in Canada, either directly or through the Madrid Protocol.

We also have accumulated a network of trusted foreign law firms who can help our clients file trademark and patent applications in foreign jurisdictions, including Europe and the Asia Pacific region (China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand).

Our lawyer, Edmund, is fully fluent in both English and Chinese. This capability means we can handle all consultations, correspondence, and strategic planning in your preferred language, eliminating the risk of miscommunication. You gain the confidence of working with a Canadian-licensed lawyer who is intimately familiar with the Canadian legal system and who can articulate that knowledge clearly to Chinese-speaking clients.

We have also worked with clients from the local Korean, Japanese, Filipino, South Asian, Ukrainian, African and Latino communities.  Our lawyer, Edmund, has been learning Spanish language for a number of years. 

Our lawyer, Edmund, has a LinkedIn profile.  https://ca.linkedin.com/in/edmundxie